Unacceptable coercion in the "Cloud"

I played a few weeks ago with the thought me a EA2700, EA3500 and EA4500 to create what I have so far not done luckily. Cisco / LinkSys has used a firmware update out, in which one is forced to zuzulegen to manage this router an "online account" (cloud) to manage all functions.

"Although you can get without a CC-account access, by interrupting the Internet connection by unplugging the cable to the DSL modem and now logs with the router password. However, then miss a lot of configuration options, for example, to port forwarding and for NAS functions.

Worse outweigh the Terms, which you must submit in order to use Connect Cloud can. In the [...] long license agreement, Cisco takes very extensive rights out: [...] By accepting the agreement [...] we are also his online privacy continues on. Cisco requires its own initiative, in accordance with its privacy policy may need to collect personal data on the usage behavior and possibly to transfer anonymous in the USA or other countries. [...] If you breach the rules threatens Cisco, among other things, to terminate Connect Cloud account. Thus, the router is not automatically disabled, but at least you can not configure it completely "
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